Liber Psalmorum, 52

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0. To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."

1. Magistro chori. Maskil. David,

1. Why do you boast, O mighty man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day

2. postquam Doeg Edomita ad Saul venit eique narravit dicens: " David intravit in domum Abimelech ".

2. you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.

3. Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es iniquitate?

3. You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]

4. Tota die insidias cogitasti; lingua tua sicut novacula acuta, qui facis dolum.

4. You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

5. Dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem, mendacium magis quam loqui aequitatem.

5. But God will break you down for ever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]

6. Dilexisti omnia verba perditionis, lingua dolosa.

6. The righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

7. Propterea Deus destruet te in finem; evellet te et emigrabit te de tabernaculo et radicem tuam de terra viventium.

7. "See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!"

8. Videbunt iusti et timebunt et super eum ridebunt:

8. But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever.

9. “Ecce homo, qui non posuit Deum refugium suum, sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum et praevaluit in insidiis suis”.

9. I will thank thee for ever, because thou hast done it. I will proclaim thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.

10. Ego autem sicut virens oliva in domo Dei. Speravi in misericordia Dei in aeternum et in saeculum saeculi.

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11. Confitebor tibi in saeculum, quia fecisti; et exspectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est, in conspectu sanctorum tuorum.

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